Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20/02/2025 00:40, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
the responsibility of others.

 
I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and greasy,
but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are told.  And I will
never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.
 
Howard Waldrop's _The Ugly Chickens_ is one of the best SF stories ever
written but is not historically accurate regarding the flavour of dodo.
 

IOW, this is /not/ "particular about Americans". At least, not when
historical events are listed.

 
God may have given us dominion over the earth and the seas but that does
not seem to me to be a license to just wreck it all.
--scott

 
I believe I've heard that Christians believed
for a long time - along with a "young earth"
and creationism - that species extinction
didn't, wouldn't happen.  That whatever God had
crested would continue to exist - unless he
changed his mind about that.  And so species
didn't need to be protected from destructive
exploitation.  God was protecting them.

Indeed, the fact that the Dodo was really extinct
took a long time to penetrate,
and it came as quite a shock, in some circles,

Jan